Bottle-carrier.



J. T. H. PAUL.

BOTTLE CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 1911.

1,017,996. Patented Feb.20, 1912.

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J. T. H. PAUL.

BOTTLE CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22, 19 11. 1,017,996. PatentedFeb. 20, 1912;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. H. PAUL, OF CHICAGO, ILIiINOIS, ASSIGNOR T E. GOLDMAN 86 00.,INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

Application filed March 22, 1911. Serial No. 616,216.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN T. H. PAUL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Carriers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvementin the construction of carriersfor support ing in inverted position bottles on a conveyer traversingcleaning means in a machine for washing the bottles and soaking offtheir labels. Such a machine forms the subject of my pending applicationfor Letters Patent. Serial No. 579,470, filed August 29, 1910; and Ihave devised my present improvement more particularly for use therein,to attain the advantages hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in broken section online 1, Fig. 2, illustrating so much of my aforesaid machine as isnecessary to show the operative connection therewith of my improvedbottle-carrier; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the showing in Fig. 1, butwithout the bottles in the carrier and the stop-shield over the path ofthe bottles; Fig. 3 is a section on the irregular line 33, Fig. 2, andFig. 4 is a section on line 4, Fig. 3.

The base of my improved carrier is a single rigid bar 5, to one face ateach end of which is bolted a rectangular metal block 6 provided withforward and rear recessed faces 7 and 8 and having an arm 9 extend ingperpendicularly from it, the arm terminating in a perforate head 10which projects outwardly from the arm at a rightangle thereto. A frame11 comprising a pair of diverging side-members 12, 12 con nected by across-member 13 with eyes 14, 1 1 at the junctions, embraces each block6 at the converging relatively-wide ends of the members 12, where theyare let into the block-recesses, and they and the block are rigidlysecured to the bar 5 by a bolt 15 passed through them. Only one end ofthe bar is illustrated in the drawings, but both ends are similarlyequipped with the arm and frame carrying blocks, as will be readilyunderstood without illustrating the other end. Between the two frames 11extends a grid 16 comprising a casting. formed with a series of similarrings 17 and provided on its ends with ears 18 through which it isbolted to the eyes 14 of the frames 11. Similar nozzle-devices 19 arerigidly secured, at uniform intervals apart, to a face of the bar 5.Each of these devices is a casting comprising a hollow, internally andexternally tapering body 20 (Fig. 1) with three webs 21 extending fromit at uniform intervals apart and terminating adjacent to the narrowerend of the body in notches 22 having shoulders to afford about a ettingtube 23, which extends centrally from the body and constitutes thenozzle proper, a seat for the neckend of an inverted bottle 24; andangular feet 25 extend outwardly from two of the webs, at thebase-portion of the body 20, through which to bolt the nozzle-device tothe face of the bar 5. The nozzle-devices are so disposed relative tothe grid 16 as t register each nozzle 23 with the center of a ring 17.

As explained in my aforesaid application, the tank (not herein shown)has sets of jetpipes 26 supported to extend across it at intervals forjetting the washingdiquid contained in the tank into and against theouter surfaces of bottles presented to them intermittently in invertedposition. It is for handling the bottles to better advantage in themachine that I have provided the improved carrier hereinbeforedescribed. A track, one rail of which is represented at 27, is supported to extend lengthwise about the tank, and upon these rails endlesschains, a portion of one of which is shown at 28, are caused to travelintermittently, the chains carrying rollers 29 at intervals to ride onthe track. Corresponding links of the chains have perforated ears 30extending inwardly from them for riveting thereto, as represented at 31in Fig. 1, the heads 10 of the carriers, whereby the latter are disposedon the conveyer formed by the traveling chains at uniform intervalsapart to adapt them to present the inverted bottles with which they areloaded and the nozzle-devices to successive sets of the jaws 011 thepipes 26 by each intermittent movement of the conveyer. shield 32extends over the path of the bottles about the tank to afford a stop forthe bottles and deflect water from the nozzles back into the tank.

The more important objects of my improvement in the construction of thecarrier are to reduce its number of parts to the minimum to simplify andrender it as light as is practicable with due consideration forstrength, and to which end the base is composed of the single bar 5; toprovide the conical nozzle-bodies 20 with the seats in the web-endsabout the tubes 23 to center the bottles at their necks and reduce tothe minimum liability of breaking them in loading them necledownwardinto the carrier through the rings 17 and to render the carrier as openas possible to aiford space all about the bodies of the bottles forshedding freely the labels washed from the bottles without tendency todisintegrate them and obstruct their being flushed away in wholecondition, thereby to avoid clogging of the apparatus by the material ofthe labels if they should be torn up or disintegrated in removing them.Moreover, my improved construction of the carrier adapts it for holdingany size of bottle to be cleansed, from a split to a large quart; andits open structure not only adapts it to easily and freely discharge thebottles by tilting it, but also permits the bottles to be removedreadily by hand.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Abottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, comprising, in combination, abar provided on its ends with means for connecting it withconveyerchains, frames extending from said ends, a grid secured at itsends to said frames and having a series of bottle guiding and encirclingrings, and nozzledevices secured at intervals to the bar to registertheir jetting-tubes with the centers of said rings.

2. A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, comprising, incombination, a bar provided on its ends with blocks having angular armsextending from them for connection with conveyer-chains, frames securedto the blocks, a grid secured at its ends to said frames and having aseries of bottle guiding and encircling rings, and nozzle-devicessecured at intervals to the bar to register their jetting-tubes with thecenters of said rings.

A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, co1nprising,in combination,a bar provided on its ends with means by which to secure the carrier toa support, a grid supported on the bar and having a series of bottleguiding and encircling rings, and nozzle-devices having hollow bodiesand jet ting-tubes and webs extending from them with seat-formingnotches in the web-ends about the tubes, said bodies being secured atintervals to the bar to register the ettingtubes with the centers ofsaid rings.

A bottle-carrier for the purpose set forth, comprising, in combination,a bar provided on its ends with means by which to secure the carrier toa support, a grid sup ported on the bar and having, a series of bottleguiding and encircling rings, and nozzledevices consisting of hollowtapering bodies having jetting-tubes and webs extending from them withseat-forming notches in the web-ends about the tubes and angular feet onmembers of the webs at which the nozzle devices are secured to a face ofsaid bar at intervals to register the jetting-tubes with the centers ofsaid rings.

JOHN T. n. PAUL.

In presence of g A. U. THoRIEN, R. A. SOHAFER.

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